Comment 14 for bug 94014

Hi David,
while it may be too complex to "fix" this as a papercut, a quick win would be just to double the width of this column and that surely can't be THAT hard?

This is an extremely annoying bug, if for instance you're browsing through a dir filled with files with similar names, such as TV episodes or log files. I know that almost everytime I open a new nautilus window (or worse a new tab) I have to resize this column because I can't tell which file is which.

While it would be better to fix it properly, I can see from earlier comments on the ticket that this is a more complex issue than it appears to the user, but I think most people would be happy with the quick win.

Hope this helps,
Matt

Quoting David Siegel <email address hidden>:

> This is too complex to be considered a paper cut.
>
> ** Changed in: hundredpapercuts
> Status: Confirmed => Invalid
>
> ** Changed in: hundredpapercuts
> Milestone: round-4 => None
>
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> In list view, the name column's size is not remembered
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/94014
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> Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts: Invalid
> Status in Nautilus: Confirmed
> Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
> Status in “nautilus” package in Debian: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: nautilus
>
> This affects list view in non-browser mode, probably used by a
> large percentage of Ubuntu users, and is quickly annoying.
>
> Since bug #89031 was fixed (List views start with too-narrow name
> column), the name column size seems to be hard-coded, and usually
> not large enough. Resizing the name column does not result in the
> new column width being used when reopening the folder, as should
> normally happen with "spatial nautilus".
>
> Furthermore, the name column width does not increase when
> increasing the size of the window, as used to happen.
>